COPY

 

Description: This function allows the user to generate a set of duplicate elements.  The user may simultaneously translate, rotate, or offset (in the normal direction) the copied elements.

 

Usage:

 

1.  DSI prompts the user to select the elements to be copied:

>   SELECT ELEMENTS

 

2.  Once the desired elements have been selected, DONE continues to the next step, where DSI prompts:

>   ENTER COPY OPTION (M/R/N/P/A)

 

3.  Then DSI prompts:

>    ENTER NUMBER OF COPIES

 

 4.  DSI prompts:

>   CREATE LOCAL COORDINATES

PICK NODE/PT FOR ORIGIN

•   DSI is asking for a desired coordinate system (local or global).  DSI prompts the user to create a local system.  A thorough explanation of how to create a local coordinate system is covered in Local Coordinate System, Section 2.16.

 

 5.   Once the coordinate system is determined, DSI prompts the user to select magnitudes for the transformation (respective to the selections made in step 4).

 •   If MOVE was selected:

 >   ENTER U, V, W, INCREMENTS

•   i.e., 0,0,1000.  This will copy the selected element(s) 1000 units along the Z-axis.

 

•   If ROTATE was selected:

 >   ENTER ANGLE INCREMENT

 •   Enter the angle increment (right hand rule) about the W-axis.

 •   If NORMAL offset was selected:

 >   ENTER THICKNESS IN NORMAL DIRECTION

•   Thickness is the distance away from the plane of the elements in the direction of the element's normal.

 

 6.   DSI prompts:

 >   INCLUDE COPIED ELEMENTS IN ITS ORIGINAL PART. (Y/N)

 ?   YES

 NO

•   YES places all copied elements in their original part.

•   NO places all copied elements into the CURRENT PART.

 

-COPY: MAPPING (LCS)

 


Description: Mapping allows the user to copy and move or simply move selected elements from one user-defined coordinate system to another user-defined coordinate system along the UV plane.

 

Usage:

 

1.  DSI prompts:

>   KEEP SELECTED ELEMENTS.

•   YES copies the selected elements and moves the copied elements to the new location.

•   NO removes the selected elements to the new location.

 

2.  DSI prompts:

>   DEFINE FIRST LOCAL COORDINATE

 •   This defines the orientation of the selected elements.

 

3.  DSI prompts:

>   DEFINE SECOND LOCAL COORDINATE

 •   This defines the new orientation for the selected elements.

 •   DSI aligns the copied or moved elements according to their UV orientation.